Recent research shows that organic and non-GMO labels raise the prices of food. Avoiding unnecessary labels means a smaller grocery bill.
Tag: Food Labeling
Why do GMO science communication?
If you'll permit me, I'd like to philosophize a bit about why I am here, why I keep coming back to science communication. Now that I have a young daughter, I often ask myself how I can best spend my time. Even…
The inconvenient truth about GMO labeling
Over the past few months, there have been several big stories on the labeling of GMOs: Chipotle, a chain of restaurants popular in the United States declared that they were going to eliminate GMOs from their menu. A perhaps more…
Should science be a democracy?
A January 2015 survey conducted by agricultural economists at Oklahoma State found that 82% of Americans want their food labeled if it contains GMOs. The same survey found that 80% of Americans want their food labeled if it contains DNA. I've been…
GMO Crops: To Label Or Not To Label
Written by Steve Savage (Republished from Science 2.0) This fall, California voters will be asked to vote on Proposition 37, a law which would require that all foods including “GMO Crop ingredients” be labeled as such. There are many…